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Description: | A copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount from the Early Medieval period (circa 1000-1200). This example is published in David William's book, Late Saxon Stirrup-strap mounts: A classification and catalogue (1997), No: 414. The stirrup-strap mount is an openwork, zoomorphic mount with angled flange. Williams' classification states that this mount is a Class B mount, Type 2, Group 1. Class B, type 2 mounts form a distinctive group of trapezoidal mounts with 'central heads and flanking, inward-looking beasts'. This example is complete. It is a debased copy of an example recorded from Tangmere (West Sussex) Williams No. 411. Williams states: 'The two heads are reduced to shapeless protrusions with schematic features rendered by curving grooves while the flanking figures are quite invisible. The fixing holes are narrow in diameter and there are iron traces around all three.' The metal is a dark brownish-grey colour and is pitted.
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